Intercultural Communication: A Reader is based on the idea that successful intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if humankind and society are to survive. This text is theoretical and practical so that the issues associated with intercultural communication can be first understood and then acted upon. This broad-based, highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who defined the course, includes a balance of articles — some commissioned solely for this text --that discuss the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field, as well as those that investigate the field's latest research and ideas. Material is presented in context that allows students to read, understand and then apply the concepts to their lives to ensure that they are effective, culturally aware communicators.

Samovar (San Diego State University) adds 23 new essays, 12 written especially for the book, to this 11th edition of a reader suitable for a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including communication courses, courses concerned with issues related to human interaction, and courses in areas such as anthropology, health care, sociology, business, and international relations. Another new feature of this edition is the inclusion of a new chapter examining the topic of cultural identity and its role in human interaction.
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This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, rhetoric, group, business, education, health care, and organizational. This broad-based, highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who defined the course, includes a balanced selection of articles--some commissioned solely for this text--that discusses the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field, as well as the latest research and ideas. Material is presented in such a way that you can read, understand, and then apply course concepts to your own life.

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Preface. 1: APPROACHES TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. Understanding Intercultural Communication: Some Working Principles, Edwin R. McDaniel, Larry A. Samovar, and Richard E. Porter. Culture and Conflict, Harry C. Triandis. Worldview in Intercultural Communication: A Religio-Cosmological Approach, Satoshi Ishii, Donald Klopf, and Peggy Cooke. "Harmony without Uniformity": An Asiacentric Worldview and Its Communicative Implications, Yoshitaka Miike. Pathways of Human Understanding: An Inquiry into Western and North American Indian Worldview Structures, Leo Schelbert. The Cultural Iceberg: Working Across Cultures, John Hooker. 2: CULTURAL IDENTITY: ISSUES OF BELONGING. Constructing, Negotiating and Communicating Jewish Identity in America, Jamie Moshin and Ronald Jackson, II. Living Within Whiteness: A Project Aimed at Undermining Racism, John T. Warren. The Hybrid Identification of Gender Queer: Claiming Neither/Nor Both/And, A. L. Zimmerman and Patricia Geist-Martin. Chinese American Ethnic and Cultural Identity, Sabine Chai and Mei Zhong. What's (not) in a Label?: Understanding Korean American Adoptee Identity Through Self-Identified Labels, Etsuko Kinefuchi. Straddling Cultural Borders: Exploring Identity in Multiple Reacculturation, Chuka Onwumechili, Peter Nwosu, and Ronald Jackson II. 3: INTERNATIONAL CULTURES: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY. Living Together vs. Going it Alone: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, Richard E. Nisbett. The Spirituality of "Being," Grace, and Tao in Intercultural Communication, Mary Fong. Communication with Indians, Rajesh Kumar and Anand Kumar Sethi. Dismantling Misconceptions About Islam in Egypt, Polly A. Begley. Intermediated Interpersonal Communication Codes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ann Neville Miller. 4: CO-CULTURES: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES. Unum and Pluribus, Young Yun Kim. Hooponopono: A Hawaiian Cultural Process to Conflict Resolution, Charmaine Ka'imikawa. Americans in Black and Brown: Exploring Sources of Intercultural Tensions Between Blacks and Latinos, Peter Nwosu. Which is My Good Leg?, Dawn Braithwaite and Charles Braithwaite. In Plain Sight: Gay and Lesbian Communication and Culture, William F. Eadie. 5: INTERCULTURAL MESSAGES: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION. Language, Culture, and Social Interaction, Justin Charlebois. Dialogue, Argument, and Cultural Communication Codes Between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians, Donald G. Ellis and Ifat Maoz. Public Speaking Patterns in Kenya, Ann Neville Miller. Mexican Dichos: Lessons Through Language, Carolyn Roy. Beyond